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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Lost Eagles One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars by Blaine Lee Pardoe Leaping the Year: Fall 2.0. Given a fall that’s packed with previously scheduled titles, books that were bumped from spring, and timely drop-ins, some titles have skipped the autumn fray altogether. PW spoke with publishers that, citing issues including printing problems and temporary bookstore closings, are delaying publication dates by as much as two years. Counterpoint, for instance, moved Jamie Harrison’s next novel, The Center of Everything , from June to January 2021, with the hope that more bookstores will be open than were in spring. The author’s previous book, 2017’s The Widow Nash , enjoyed strong indie support. Center takes place in Harrison’s home state of Montana, and the publisher sees virtual events not just as a must in the pandemic era but also as a way to expand beyond regional interest to reach readers “all over the place,” says Rachel Fershleiser, associate publisher and executive director of marketing at Counterpoint. Because the book was ready for June, she adds, the publisher already has plenty of finished hardcover copies to send to Instagram influencers. The fall printing crunch prompted Tiller Press to bump Law-breaking Ladies by Erika Owen from August to the end of February, just ahead of Women’s History Month in March. Publicity manager Marlena Brown says she usually focuses promotional efforts within the first two weeks of a book’s release but welcomes the longer news hook. “With this pub date coming on the cusp of a month tied directly to the book topic,” she says, “we have more freedom to think of creative promotions.” A timely tie-in can help make up for the disappointment of a postponement. Debut novelist Robyn Gigl says she was crushed to learn that Kensington was bumping her thriller, By Way of Sorrow , from its original July publication. “You have that date when you’re going to be published,” she says, “and it becomes magical for you.” But she turned the shift into a plus, suggesting that Kensington go with a new pub date of March 30, the day before International Transgender Day of Visibility. Her book’s plot centers on a transgender attorney who defends a transgender prostitute accused of murder, and Gigl is herself a transgender lawyer who frequently lectures on diversity issues. Greystone Books moved Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women—and What We Can Do About It from fall to March 2021, which allowed author Gabrielle Jackson to add a pandemic-related epilogue. Editorial director Jen Croll says the new information explores emerging research showing women are more likely than men to suffer long-term effects after a Covid-19 infection and to “be told it’s all in their heads.” But Jackson offers a hopeful tone, Croll adds, presenting the pandemic as a catalyst for chronic fatigue and pain “to finally receive research and attention from the medical community.” At New Directions, 2021 was still too soon for the new Storybooks ND line of fiction, overseen by writer and translator Gini Alhadeff and highlighting New Directions authors including National Book Award–winner Yoko Tawada and Clarice Lispector. “I don’t have confidence in our government to really get the plague under control and create that happy shopping mood we want” next year, says publisher Barbara Epler. With their 6½” × 9” trim size and gold spines and edges, the slender volumes are “tactile,” she notes, and meant to be picked up in person. ND moved the summer 2020 launch to summer 2022 to best court bookstore shoppers and expanded the original list from four to six titles. Veteran’s Day – Remembering Battle Creek Aviator Frederick Zinn. Three years ago I wrote the book, Lost Eagles (University of Michigan Press), about Frederick Zinn from my hometown of Battle Creek Michigan. On this Veteran’s Day, I thought it would be worth revisiting his story. Fred was born in Galesburg Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan. For his graduation, he decided to tour Europe. His timing wasn’t great – it was the summer of 1914, the summer war broke out. Fred eventually found himself in Paris at the outbreak of hostilities. Along with 42 other American’s, Fred joined the French Foreign Legion. It was three years before the United States would declare war on Germany. Fred was the first American to capture a prisoner of war while fighting for the Legion. He was wounded and returned to Battle Creek Michigan for a few months. When he returned he (and several other prominent Americans) transferred from the Foreign Legion into the French Air Service. Fred was flying for France starting in 1915. He became America’s first aerial combat photographer and was one of the first members of the Lafayette Flying Corps – a grooming organization for men that would be the heart of the American Air Service. Fred was promoted several times, and had vast air combat service when the US declared war in 1917. Fred was the first member of the Americans transferred into the American Air Service at the personal behest of Billy Mitchell. During the remainder of the war he established the first aviation reconnaissance and photography training programs, and headed up the personnel section – personally selecting replacement pilots for the front. By the time the war had ended, Fred Zinn of Western Michigan had seen more combat and had been at war longer than almost any other human being. When Armistice was signed on the 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month of 1918, Fred Zinn should have been the first man to go home. God knows he had earned it. But Fred Zinn didn’t see his work as done. He had sent nearly 200 men to the front during the war who had not come home. Fred Zinn proposed something that had never been tried by the US Army. He proposed going and finding the missing airmen. The Army allowed it. While most servicemen went home to parades, Fred went onto Berlin to work with former enemies like Ernst Udet, the locate the bodies or personal remains of the missing American aviators. With a staff of four, by the end of 1919, Fred had tracked down the remains or effects of 95% of the missing aviators. He returned home to the family business, milling grain for Kelloggs Corporation. Fred served in the reserves in the between-the-war years. When WWII broke out, Fred went to Washington to meet with Hap Arnold about setting up a system to track the thousands of missing aviators that were going to be lost in the looming war. It took some convincing, but Fred was able to put together the process and establish the Missing Air Crew reporting system – signed off by General George Marshall himself in a scene eerily reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan. Fred was offered a Colonel rank in the Air Force but he insisted that he be in charge of searching for missing aviators. When the Air Force would not guarantee him that role, he turned to a former friend from the Foreign Legion who got him into the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA. Using a cover provided by the Kellogg Foundation, Fred Zinn became a counterintelligence spy for the US government. His cover was the mission he wanted to perform – searching for missing aviators. At the age of 50 Fred Zinn went back to basic training and then off to war again. During WWII Fred worked right at the front lines, personally overseeing the recovery of hundreds of missing men and bringing closure to their loved ones. Not only did he do this, but he performed counterintelligence missions as well. He came home just before the end of the war. Fred went on to represent Calhoun County in the Michigan House of Representatives. After his death, an airshow was held in his honor at Kellogg Airport, a facility that Fred helped in the design of. Fred never drew attention to himself, yet he stands out as one of Michigan’s most decorated and illustrious WWI aviators and veterans. Battle Creek never named a park or a street after him, yet he was a true patriot who severed with distinction in two world wars. No statues stand to commemorate this humanitarian. His pioneering work continues on today every time the US military recovers a missing man or woman overseas. So please join me on this Veteran’s Day to remember a great aviator, and a great man – Frederick Zinn. Secret Witness : The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan. Available. Expected delivery to the Russian Federation in 8-20 business days. Description. Every small town has a moment when the real world abruptly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its people. For citizens of Marshall, Michigan, that moment came August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear was working downtown at the Tasty Cafe that morning when she received a package. She opened it and was instantly killed in a fiery explosion. In the months that followed, law enforcement and prosecutors wrestled with a crime that to all appearances was senseless. Evidence recovered from the blown-up restaurant, including a bottle of pills that had been tainted with lye, suggested a concerted plot to murder Mrs. Puyear. But why had someone wanted to kill the well-liked woman, by all accounts a pillar of her close-knit community? For that matter, was Marshall really the quaint paradise it seemed to be? Secret Witness brings to light startling new evidence and freshly uncovered facts to address these and other questions that, to this day, surround one of Michigan's most brutal murders.

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